1) In the South Brooklyn (near Brighton Beach) is now increasingly occur underground (so as not to pay taxes) school of the Russian language. There language Hvorostovsky and Plevako trained young people from former Soviet republics. There is a Lithuanian school, a Kazakh, hairdresser Manana, which I have his hair cut - opened for its Georgian. And that, she studied at the Russian school, and even speaks with an accent, but freely, unlike their younger counterparts who do not know Russian. But since arrived in America in its yuzhnobruklinskuyu part, then be kind - teach Russian. Otherwise you will not get any nurse or a nurse to the elderly. And this is usually the first work in America.
2) Masseur Zurab (for his services, one has
) - Georgians, as you can guess from the name and appearance. But to him regularly treated in Uzbek. Because when he came to the above-mentioned part of America, Georgian schools of the Russian language was not there, and he went to teach Russian in the garages, where the work came from Tashkent. Learned very quickly, but with the Central Asian accent, and now the procedure simply explain that he does not speak Uzbek.
3) The bus New York-Boston-door neighbor - a young man of Slavic appearance and a T-shirt a rock band - gets out of the bag a thick book. "The Brothers Karamazov. Polish. Tries to read (opened in the fifth chapter of the eleventh book), but the conversation (the best of its bad English). This is the second translation of The Brothers Karamazov, which he reads the first, classic, he likes much more. But in fact Ian had just Fyodor read. This year, graduated from high school and enrolled in the Poznan Polytechnic construction, logistics and electrical engineering.
Life - it is more interesting than it seems.